PGA Ownership Report: RBC Heritage

by Sean O'Donnell (hokie2009) Last Updated 2016-04-18 02:33:20

Here’s the data for the $3 Birdie for this week’s RBC Heritage!

Full field ownerships (for the $3, cash games, and more) can be found here!

And we have a co-ownerships matrix that shows who the highest owned pairs of golfers were in this week’s $3 Drive the Green:

This might sound silly, but I think us DFS’ers can sympathize some with a few of these guys! I know I poured my heart and soul into trying to build good Milly Maker teams last week and spent a ridiculously greedy number of hours with a screen in the room at all times for four day … it was fun! But this week came on fast! Let’s take a deep breath and see what everyone came up with while scouting through their Masters’ hangovers!

Matt Kuchar (21% GPP 43% Cash) – Mr. Steady Eddie himself (supposedly) – good history here, really nothing not to like, cozy pay-down from Day/Casey … this is a rare specimen in PGA DFS these days: True Chalk! AT LEAST. In cash games. I personally faded Mr. Kuchar in GPPs but it looks like 22% of you were as un-clever as I am, and, in hindsight, at 21% owned, Kuchar would have been just as good of a play as any of the guys I played instead of him. But hey! Everybody makes the best decisions they can on the info available, hind sight 20/20, and Kuchar doesn’t exactly strike fear into my heart. We’ll see what happens!

Jason Day (29% GPP 18% Cash) – Probably one of the most analyzed players this week, which is interesting because nobody seemed to disagree at all on whether or not he was good enough to deserve his salary. It was just a matter of trying to guess if he’d be good enough this week. Given injury concerns, focus concerns, and guys like Mr. Kuchar lurking below, we see these ownerships. If most people’s theories are correct Day is either going to be all-in or all-out on this tournament so perhaps a GPP ticket or ten was the way to go!

Bryson DeChambeau (17% GPP, 14% Cash) – The boy wonder gets to try to get paid this week! An impressive performance at the Masters got him mucho TV spotlight, but DFS is the ultimate “what have you done for me lately” crowd and I think one bad round spoiled the recipe for many of his hopeful followers. I think this week will determine … this $8k price tag is kind of an in-between. This was the week to “bet” on him. If he lives up t the hype this week expect to see an increased price, ownership, or both going forward. If he were to miss the cut or wholly underwhelm, I’d expect the bandwagon to totally derail instantly. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out!

Jason Bohn (9% GPP, 4% Cash) – Back from his heart attack, feel-good story, very affordable price tag and many pundits and models had him rated as a very competitive golfer in this field. Except. Well he hasn’t played golf in awhile. That’s why I think you see twice as many people taking risks on him in GPP than in cash, and many not taking the risk at all. I thought this was one of the highest-upside plays on the board, especially with reduced ownership … I think taking some risks is exactly the way to go in a tournament like the Drive the Green with such a top-heavy payout and low buy-in, so I applaud you 9%, and I am riding with you this week!

Luke Donald (14% GPP, 22% Cash) – Pure course history in isolation here! Actually, that’s not true. Donald, in my HUMBLE opinion, has had some form lately. Not $8k+ worth of form, but some pulse! So the course history gets him the rest of the way to 15-20% owned at $8,000. And as of this writing, about 80% of us are muttering despicable things under our breath when we open up the leaderboard. All I can say is, three and a half more days to go, and may things forever regress in your favor!

Good luck everyone!